The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.

The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.

We divert our attention from disease and death as much as we can; the slaughterhouses are huddled out of sight and never mentioned, so that the world we recognize officially in literature and in society is a poetic fiction far handsomer, cleaner and better than the world that really is.

It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.

Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it.

In all this process of acquiring conceptions, a certain instinctive order is followed. There is a native tendency to assimilate certain kinds of conception at one age, and other kinds of conception at a later age.

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.